#NRMPresents 'The True-View.' 3D Photos & Video On Your 2D Smartphone

The classic View-Master is dragged into the 21st century with 'The True-View.' The 3D smartphone fad died a couple years ago, so what if you want the best of both worlds? That is where this pretty beautifully designed device comes in, allowing you to take 3D photos and videos on your 2D phone.

Created by Peter Brennan & The Pratley Company, the base contains a set of strategically placed mirrors to split the phone's camera lens into two images, allowing for full 3D capture capabilities. The viewing lenses are then tuned to the right magnification for a clear stereoscopic picture, just like the effect achieved at the cinema.

"Our goal with this project is to bring user-generated 3D content to the fingertips of anyone with a smartphone," Peter Brennan writes on the Kickstarter page.

'The True-View' has undergone proof-of-concept testing, and already has a full prototype. The £125,000 pledge budget is required for a few finer tweaks to perfect the product, and tooling for full-scale manufacturing.

"There are a number of ways to do this cheaply, the most obvious being to send the design files off to a factory in China and wait for them to deliver the product. That's NOT how we're doing things.

"The prototype we have at present is a high quality rapid prototyped plastic, painstakingly put together by hand. There is a lot of detail that needs to go into the device, and we want to manufacture responsibly, by using recycled materials and techniques that are enviro-friendly. This means we need to go out and meet with these factories face-to-face, and garner long-term, professional and personal relationships with the people who will be making this device."

True-View is compatible with both iOS and Android, on a select list of devices:

With £2,564 at the time of writing this, which is only a few hours after this project was launched, time will tell whether this passion project for user-generated 3D content.

Personally hope it does though.

Jason England

I am the Founder and Editor-in-chief of New Rising Media. You can follow me on Twitter @MrJasonEngland.

#NRMPresents 'Pocket Spacecraft.' Send Your Own Spacecraft To The Moon

We've become closer to space than we could ever imagine recently. Through the likes of SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, it's fair to say the idea of taking the kids on a holiday excursion to deep space is becoming less far-fetched as the years pass by. However a recently launched Kickstarter, called Pocket Spacecraft, project doesn't hope to get you into "space tourism," rather give all backers their own "personalised spacecraft" to send into orbit.

#NRMPresents 'TouchKeys.' Multi-Touch Gestures For Your Piano

For the past few centuries, the piano has been commonplace in music. During this same period of time, the instrument hasn't really evolved either. Well that is until now, as the 'Touch Keys' DIY sensor kit brings touch sensitivity to the surface of piano keys, similar to the screen of a smartphone or tablet.

Six years ago, KING Art Studios made a prototype of turn-based strategy game Battle Worlds: Kronos, which underwent community testing and gained popularity with the European strategy community. However, no publisher came forward to back the project, and as the developers moved onto new games, this highly regarded title was to remain unfinished.

As you could probably tell with this substantial amount of build-up, that is until now.

#NRMPRESENTS 'Superhot.' Control Time In This Unique FPS Puzzler

Imagine Braid mixed with Mirror's Edge, plus a hint of Max Payne and The Matrix for good measure. The concoction created is not far off the unique nature of Superhot, a free FPS that was greenlit for Steam in just 5 days (a new record).

#NRMPresents 'WREN.' A Crowdsourced Satellite You Can Directly Control

We've seen many efforts in bringing the world closer to space, all from a plethora of multi-billion pound companies. But imagine a mission to the stars ran by four guys in a garage and, possibly, you. Introducing WREN: the first satellite you can fly.